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Meaning rationalize meaning

What does rationalize mean?

rationalize

— verb (= excuse, rationalise) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior he rationalized his lack of success — verb (= cut) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet — verb (= rationalise) think rationally; employ logic or reason When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize — verb (= rationalise) remove irrational quantities from This function can be rationalized — verb (= rationalise) structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits

Synonyms rationalize synonyms

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rationalize English » English

rationalise reorganize justify streamline restore reconstruct rebuild prune explain excuse cut apologize apologise weaken trim back trim throttle taper subtract reform reduce reason rationalization rationalise away rationalisation ratiocinate limit improve hold down give state reason factor out expense downsize dock detract deduct decrease bate axe ax argue abridge

Conjugation rationalize conjugation

How do you conjugate rationalize?

rationalize · verb

Examples rationalize examples

How do I use rationalize in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He tried to rationalize his foolish actions.

Movie subtitles

Stop trying to rationalize everything.
You get a soldier who has hysterical paralysis. and you treat him as though he's really paralyzed, and he'll become sick. just to rationalize the guilt of leaving his buddies at the front.
All you ever do is rationalize.
I urge for something we can not analyze or rationalize.
Now, they'll rationalize it by throwing us some bone.
I mean, this is reality. In reality, we rationalize.
How can you rationalize premeditated murder?
How neatly you rationalize your capabilities.
Your mind tries to rationalize your traumas to help you make sense in an irrational world.
The government had originally planned to rationalize several thousand jobs but then capitulated in the face of the strike.
Somehow he can rationalize it. like the establishment owes him a Snickers.
Even now you're trying to rationalize.
They rationalize taking it, but in the end, they can't.
Frank, you don't have to rationalize my actions to this guy!
You must learn to rationalize your imagination.
I suppose nothing so shocking about it if you rationalize it.
I'm asking you, don't try to rationalize, have no doubts, marry her, and I'm sure that there will never be a happier man.
You can't rationalize a thing like this.
But the older and more sophisticated we become, the more we rationalize what our senses try to tell us.
You rationalize everything.
Naturally, I tried to rationalize it as a. random accident.
Even now, you're trying to rationalize.
You can rationalize it all you want.
Is that how you rationalize this- by calling your people cowards so you can be a hero?
In reality, we rationalize.
I was down on myself for a while, even though I. you know, I tried to rationalize it.
Somehow, he can rationalize it, like the, uh, establishment owes him a Snickers.
You rationalize.
Don't rationalize like that.
People have a tendency to rationalize what they can and forget what they can't.
That's how you rationalize making the choice between the mission and the men.
But like any sentient creature, we rationalize our actions.

News and current affairs

Objections to the applicability of human-rights standards are all too frequently voiced by authoritarian rulers and power elites to rationalize violations that keep them in power.
It is less easy to rationalize why the US government is continuing to run budget deficits despite a cyclical boom.
When a stock-market boom reaches historic proportions, a story always develops to rationalize it.
The Japanese scare story of the 1990s, in which monetary and fiscal policy prove powerless in the face of a sustained deflation, is the economic trauma now used to rationalize Bush's vast 10-year program of tax cutting.
Military reforms have stalled, as if Russia had all the time in the world to rationalize and modernize its defenses.
The Dodd-Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.
In their effort to overcome centuries of military and commercial backwardness, Muslims have sought to industrialize, rationalize administration, and adopt modern forms of political life.
After all, member countries would then be able to pool their resources, harmonize programs, and rationalize costs, thereby reducing individual governments' financial burden.
And it is hard to rationalize so atavistic an effort being initiated by a government and supported with taxpayers' money.
Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.
Military reforms have stalled, as if Russia had all the time in the world to rationalize and modernize its defenses. In short, bureaucrats do everything they can to force the government to sit on its hands.
Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.

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